August friedrich and conrad walter



FREDERICK & WALTER.

Tobacco Box. No. 29,152. Patented July 17, 1860.

. i w W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST FRIEDRICH AND CONRAD \VALTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,152, dated July 17, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AUGUST FRIEDRICH and CONRAD WALTER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tobacco- Boxes; and we hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, in Which Figure 1, represents a perspective view of the said box; Fig. 2 a horizontal section of the same.

The same letters of reference refer to the same parts in these figures.

Our improvement consists in providing the box with a vertical plate secured to a spring for the purpose of compressing the tobacco contained within the box.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention we will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

a represents a spring incased in a small cylinder and fastened on the inside to the back of the box. The plate I) is fastened to the said spring; this plate stands vertically like the side plates 6, and g of the box, and

will be in the position a, g, in Fig. 2 when the box contains but a small quantity of tobacco, and will gradually turn toward 6 when the quantity of tobacco is gradually increased. The spring a pressing the plate 7) in the direction indicated by the arrow will cause the said plate to exert a pressure in the same direction and thereby a compres sion of the tobacco in the box Will be attained. The advantage of this arrangement consists in obtaining a box wherein more tobacco may be packed than in any other of the same size and in avoiding the loss of tobacco by the opening of the lid 0. The part c e g of the box forms a segment of a circle of which a is the center.

What We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combination of the vertical plate I) and spring a with the segment-shaped box 6 e g substantially in the manner and for the purpose as described.

AUGUST FRIEDRICH. CONRAD WALTER. Witnesses GHs. WEHLE, JUL. WEHLE. 

